Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 205: Completeness and Failure

Each of these pistols is definitely not one of those inferior products that are reassembled from recycled old parts and are shoddily made. The latter are usually only used by street thugs who have just started their careers, and they risk the barrel exploding every time they fire.

The "Future Overlook Series" precision pistols of Time Series, the "Type III Permission" medium-range kinetic pistols of South Region Heavy Industry, and even the "Maintenance Belt" pistols developed by Enlightened.
There are seven in total, all of them are absolutely great stuff.

These were all requested by Song Shi and obtained from the Enlightener.

Even with his current level of combat power, Enlightenment still had some firearms that could match him, but those were either too large or had to be used with prosthetics, so in the end Song Shi only picked a few pistols - in a sense, pistols were more useful to him.

It's not about power, but about "precision" and "distance".

Just like a drone hovering hundreds of meters in the sky, that is a distance that [Scorched Earth] cannot reach for the time being.

Of course, he could actively release psychic flames and easily destroy the drone with one strike, but the cost-effectiveness of that would be very low.

But it’s different when it comes to firearms. These pistols are specially specialized in range and accuracy, and can easily hit targets thousands of meters away.

Through the effect of [Forging Flame], when needed, the pistol can be temporarily transformed into a psychic weapon, and the bullets can be attached with psychic flames. It only takes a little bit of psychic energy, and one shot can burn most conventional targets. It saves effort and worry, and is easy to carry.

just.

This does not mean that these high-end pistols are inherently low in power.

——The weakest of them can easily penetrate the protective armor of a secondary unit.

But at this moment, they are all useless!

Just like hitting an indestructible invisible wall, these roaring bullets stirred up waves of red-gold ripples in the air, but they could hardly advance even a step further. They kept melting into iron slurry and dripping down.

"Okay." Song Shi raised his hand.

The next second, the barrage stopped abruptly.

Lapis Lazuli swung its mechanical arm, and the suspended pistols flew back to their original positions one by one.

It swung again, and the iron slag and bullet casings solidified on the ground rose up, gathered together under the action of gravity, and were crushed into a small ball and thrown into the trash can.

Song Shi waited patiently for the other party to finish cleaning before speaking: "How do you feel?"

"Very good. In terms of physical protection alone, it is equivalent to a riot police officer wearing an exoskeleton and full armor modules." Lapis Lazuli replied cautiously: "If you evaluate it purely based on theoretical data, you can already ignore most non-sniper individual weapons."

"Even a Gauss sniper rifle can cause a certain degree of trajectory deviation and kinetic energy buffer. With your early warning intuition and reaction speed, you can rely on this to evade it. Conventional long-range firepower is basically no threat to you."

The intelligent machine paused for a while, as if thinking about something, but in the end, it chose to speak.

"——Song Shi."

Lapis Lazuli asked cautiously: "According to the records in the database, the defensive effect of [Scorched Earth] should not be this strong. Can you tell me what you did?"

Essentially, the ability of the Psionic Skill - [Scorched Earth] is to transform the surrounding area into an environment suitable for the "Great Source Power - Fire". If explained in the words of the game, it is to give the holder a series of benefits such as "increased mana recovery rate", "reduced skill consumption", "suppressed other attributes", "continuous damage" and so on.

Its core is to lay the field, and the "defense" and "offense" routes based on this can only be regarded as an extended effect.

Therefore, even if you choose the "defensive" route of [Scorched Earth], at best you can only withstand some small-caliber firepower. How could it be possible to achieve the level just now?

"There's nothing hidden." Song Shi snapped his fingers and removed the scorched earth - when he launched it just now, he deliberately controlled it and restrained the burning effect, otherwise the entire apartment would have been burned down.

It’s so cold, we can’t sleep on the street at night.

"First, I completed the rituals of attack and defense, making [Scorched Earth] truly 'complete'."

Song Shi took an ice ball from the wine glass, crushed a small part of it, and then spun it on the table: "Look at this ball, I'm spinning it now - even though I've used a lot of strength, it still can't spin for long."

The broken ice ball swayed, its center of gravity was unstable, and it soon stopped.

“Because it’s incomplete.”

Song Shi took out another ice ball, but this time he didn't crush it. He flicked it gently, and the ice ball began to spin quickly and steadily. "Now, when the ice ball is complete and its center of gravity is stable, it can spin for a long time with just a little effort."

"When your [Scorched Earth] is complete, its effects will be greatly enhanced in all aspects. However, it will also be more burdensome to the holder. Of course, this is not a big problem."

Song Shi picked up the two ice balls and threw them back into the cup: "There is one more point. I think this is more crucial. No matter how powerful a psychic skill is, it still needs a psychic to use, control and perform it. You should understand that even the same psychic skill will have subtle differences in the hands of different psychics."

"It's a coincidence."

He glanced at the omnic and said slowly, "I happen to have some experience in how to use scorched earth."

Seeing that Lapis Lazuli didn't say anything after hearing these words, with lights flashing all over her body and just staring at him silently, Song Shi couldn't help laughing any longer.

He laughed and stood up from the sofa: "Lapis Lazuli, please clean up the room."

"I haven't been to the abyss for a few days. I can't be decadent today." Song Shi stretched and walked to the bathroom: "I'll take a shower first. You clean up the room and adjust the deep diving chamber. We will go down and exercise later--"

——Wow.

hula.

The scalding hot water flowed down, slid across the black hair, and smashed into pieces on the naked body.

In the misty steam, Song Shi closed his eyes and exhaled.

The live broadcast room of "Cha Ke Luo (Premier Edition)" just now was just a commonplace activity, and blocking it would not affect anything at all. But for Song Shi, it reminded him of the conversation with Cha Ke Luo at the celebration banquet a few days ago.

To be more precise, it made Song Shi re-examine something.

He actually had some doubts long before entering the City of Casting Light, but his main goal at that time was to obtain [Rendering] and [Scorched Earth], so he didn't take it too seriously.

Until now, "Nan Dou" is about to step into the peak of the second ring again, and Song Shi finally has time to think about this matter again.

he wanted to know.

In a fifth ring psychic.

When the "rebel" enters in person.

——Why did the Enlightener of the previous life fail in the City of Casting Light?
(End of this chapter)